Hello and welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to a subjective and mood-related selection of songs and artists I associate with “Transition”. Music shapes generations and is closely linked with changes in society. What is the “Sound of Transition”? Here is my personal list (you will probably note it’s summer and vacation time) – it is not exhaustive, not steady and in no particular order. In fall it will surely look different again

What is your “Sound of Transition”? What songs or artists connects important times and moments in your life? Which songs give you strength and inspiration, have impressed you, moved or changed? As a comment or in a small blog parade – I’m curios about your lists.

Between the small and the big stories of life, our culture grows along the wayside. Most of the stories that reach us through television, newspapers, in schools or universities, are about the empty and worn ideas of happiness. The bestsellers remain: freedom through career, self-realization through consumption and endless growth. But on our way we also meet people who encourage us and inspire us. And for a little while they let us throw a look beyond this horizon.

In Dresden not only the Transition Town Group (Dresden im Wandel) is striving towards connecting activities and ressources. Recently the Greenpeace Group Dresden invited organisations and intiatives to a…